Sorry for Kimin row, says Border Roads Organisation
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The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has issued an unconditional apology to the folks of Arunachal Pradesh for the “inadvertent mistake” of utilizing the fallacious identify of a spot with none “mala fide intention”.
The organisation had attracted flak for “renaming” Kimin, a small city within the State’s Papum Pare district about 75 km from capital Itanagar, as Bilgarh of Assam, throughout a programme attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on June 17.
“The unfortunate incident is nothing more than an inadvertent mistake, just happened in the pressure of organising the event while racing against the time. In no way, BRO had even an iota of mala fide intention of hurting the sentiments of the people of Arunachal Pradesh. It should be taken as an unconditional apology, due to the emotive connection that BRO has with people of the state,” the organisation mentioned in an announcement on Saturday.
The BRO mentioned the confusion was created as a result of miscommunication. It claimed that somebody of their rank had mistakenly famous Kimin being in Assam throughout an informal dialogue over the proposed occasion to inaugurate the 20 km Kimin-Potin street and 12 different BRO initiatives throughout the nation.
The organisation insisted there have been no orders from any authority involved to cover the geographical location of Kimin for strategic causes.
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